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Armstrong Dunbar, Erica. Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge. New York: Atria Books, 2017.
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Account of Ona Judge, “Washington’s Runaway Slave,” The Liberator, August 22, 1845.
Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851.
John Trumbull, Portrait of William (Billy) Lee (enslaved by George Washington). 1780.
Jean Baptiste Antoine de Verger, Soldiers in Uniform, 1781.
Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Council, January 1777.
Petition to Repeal Black Codes in Ohio, 1837.
Petition Against the Colonization Movement, Sentiments of the People of Color, 1817.
P.S. Duval Lithograph, Portrait of Jarena Lee, 1849.
